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Blog tour: Gabriel's Daughters

Gabriel's Daughters: A novel by Janet Kay Jensen
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Wrestling with issues of polygamy, homosexuality, and modernity, Gabriel���s Daughters examines them through the lives of the large, loving, and polygamous Martin family. The story is told primarily through the eyes of Zina Martin, a young girl who���upon discovering she is impregnated by her ���sterile��� teacher and will soon be married off to a man three times her age���escapes the enclosed polygamous town of Gabriel���s Landing, Utah. Zina t...

Guest post by Carole Thayne Warburton--Emma Lou Thayne tribute

What a privilege it was to meet her.


Saturday, December 6, 2014Is It Cliche to Say that Emma Lou Thayne Was A Brilliant Light?I was in awe of her. Always. When I was really little, I only knew her laugh and her smile. Later I would seek her out at every family event. I wanted to bask in her charm, her intellect, and her optimistic spirit. I think the first time she wrote me a personal letter was around 1985 or 6 when my first published story came out in the New Era. It was shortly after the ca...

Gabriel's Daughters: Who's Who

Gabriel's Daughtersa novelJanuary 20, 2015



          They still hadn���t spoken about Cyrus Hamilton, though Joshua had tried to engage his daughter in a conversation about marriage several times. She was a concern to him, growing into a moody young woman with a streak of independence his patient guidance and soft-spoken wives had not been able to squelch. He suspected she had a steely core. His wives, of course, agreed that Zina needed a steady husband who would be fi...

Cover Reveal: Gabriel's Daughters

The cover of Gabriel's Daughters, to be released January 20, 2015

The cover of Gabriel's Daughters, to be released Jan...

The cover of Gabriel's Daughters, to be released January 20, 2015

The cover of Gabriel's Daughters, to be released January ...

The cover of Gabriel's Daughters, to be released January 20. 

Things I didn't Know #1: Are you afraid of clowns?

Clowning Around...


I grew up with Howdy Doody, Clarabell and Buffalo Bob Smith. They were funny and gentle and never frightened children. We laughed right along with them. Yes, we watched them on a black and white TV. Howdy began each episode with ���What time is it?��� and the roaring response from the audience was ���It���s Howdy Doody time!��� Clarabell the Clown and a marionette, Buffalo Bob Smith, were two of his most famous sidekicks.




Then there was Captain Kangaroo, who based his charac...

Book Review: The Accidental Marriage by Annette Haws

When I read The Accidental Marriage by Annette Haws, a funny moment from the past came to mind:

When I was a newlywed, my neighbor had an unexpected errand to run just as her loaves of bread were ready to bake, and she asked if I would bake them in my oven. When my husband returned from a grueling day of grad school an hour later, he sniffed the fragrant loaves browning beautifully in the oven and closed his eyes in ecstasy. I knew he was thinking: "And she bakes bread, too!" When the truth wa...

Waterworks

Imagine this in front of your home...
Yesterday afternoon a bubbling pond emerged from the parking strip in front of our house. The city people arrived and within a few hours the broken water main was repaired. It was a little inconvenient to be without water for a few hours, but it made me grateful for good water that is readily available and for the city workers and their equipment.

Then, in the evening, a water valve up the street broke, and "Old Faithful" gushed more than 50 feet over/in fr...